MercupW is a "watchdog" for Mercury/32.

Mercury/32 sometimes simply crashes - especially in a Netware environment.

MercupW checks for a crash of Mercury/32 by looking for a Mercury/32 main window.

- it sends an alert via an /alternate/ mailserver.
- it also restarts Mercury/32 - immediately after crash and once every 15 minutes, if mercury/32 did crash again
  within that time period
- it renames possibly broken queue files to prevent a recrash
- it WILL PREVENT windows from shutting down, while running - you've been warned
- it PREVENTS the main window and module windows of Mercury/32 from maximizing and closing - you've been warned
- it can handle multiple instances of mercury/32

For the e-mail notification one can configure the addresses to be notified, the subject line, the sender
and the mail server to be used.
You can also configure the path to mercury/32 and up to 6 queue directories to be checked for broken queue files.

To handle multiple instances of mercury/32 install mercupw multiple times (with different paths to mercury/32 and
different "InstanceNumber" parameters) and let _it_ start them initially (like a crash). Instructions for this are provided
on the website. Else you'll need the little 'merctag' helper tool.

Credits:
Uses "ICS - Internet Component Suite" by Francois Piette (http://www.overbyte.be).

Tested unter winnt4, win95 and win2000.

Use at your own risk. Have fun.

robinton@alahele.de

Jan 2004